{"id":6767,"date":"2019-08-01T11:10:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2019-08-06T11:47:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:47:54","slug":"team-capsule-1965-minnesota-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/team-capsule-1965-minnesota-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Capsule: 1965 Minnesota Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of jinxing them, as of this writing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/mlb\/teams\/twins\/press-room-mlb-twins.html\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> are in first place in the American League Central Division. So for this edition of Team Capsule I want to look at the very first time the Twins took first place &#8212; 1965. Of course back then first place meant a pennant and trip to the World Series, which Minnesota lost to the L.A. Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, enjoy this trip down memory lane to 1965 and Minnesota&#8217;s 102-win season.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/1965\/minnesota-twins-yearbook_1965.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/1965\/images\/mlb-yearbook_minnesota-twins_1965.jpg\" alt=\"1965 Twins Yearbook\" width=\"600\" height=\"773\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1965 Twins Yearbook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/1965\/minnesota-twins-media-guide_1965.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/1965\/images\/mlb-media-guide_minnesota-twins_1965.jpg\" alt=\"1965 Twins Media Guide\" width=\"600\" height=\"1326\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1965 Twins Media Guide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/1965\/minnesota-twins-program_1965.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/1965\/images\/mlb-program_minnesota-twins_1965.jpg\" alt=\"1965 Twins Program\" width=\"600\" height=\"813\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1965 Twins Program feat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/killeha01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Harmon Killebrew<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/olivato01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tony Oliva<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 578px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/1965\/minnesota-twins-world-series-program_1965.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/1965\/images\/mlb-world-series-program_minnesota-twins_1965.jpg\" alt=\"1965 Twins World Series Program\" width=\"578\" height=\"789\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1965 Twins World Series Program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look back at publications from the Minnesota Twins&#8217; AL pennant-winning 1965 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[21,50,583,46,14,221,51],"class_list":["post-6767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-capsule","tag-1960s","tag-media-guides","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-programs","tag-world-series","tag-yearbooks","wpcat-654-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6776,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions\/6776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}